For Filipino owned blogs, among those that were penalized in the initial update were Yugatech, Retzwerx, Jozzua and Codamon just to mention a few. The reason? Most if not all, were brought about by paid or sponsored text link ads that didn’t use the nofollow attribute.

In the recent Google PageRank update, my blog JaypeeOnline dropped from a PR5 to a PR4. I thought that Google was done updating pageranks but apparently I was wrong because I received a comment yesterday from one of my regular readers, FruityOaty informing me that my blog just dropped to a PR3! I was surprised and disappointed but I couldn’t do anything. The only reason I can think of for my blog to get penalized was having sitewide TLA ads on my sidebar. The thing is I even removed the ads even before the initial update and I had all my featured links use the nofollow attribute. I guess it was too late. Anyways, I’ll try to file for a reinclusion at Google Webmaster Tools and hope they accept it.

I agree with the comment left by Markku on PinoyMoneyTalk’s post about the recent Google update.

The need for traditional traffic building is here again, emphasizing that content is still king.

Content is still king. This is a good reminder for established bloggers and a lesson for those who are starting. Fortunately for me, my blog traffic hasn’t been affected by the loss or drop in pagerank.

Btw, PinoyMoneyTalk has a list of several notable Filipino sites and blogs that were affected by the recent Google Pagerank update.

What do you think about the recent Google PageRank updates? Do you think Google will update PageRanks Did your blog lose or gained pagerank during the recent updates? Share your thoughts!

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Same here. my http://trialsofmylife.bravejournal.com has 3 last week but when I checked it, it is now PR2. And the worst is, the PRchecker.info still PR3 in result. weew. i don’t know what is happening in google.

*knocks* on wood. So far traffic is doing well. The one thing I notice lately is I am getting lots of nice traffic from MSN. I don’t want to rely on Google for traffic.

I have one site that gave me a lot of income in the past. It used to be PR 5 and now PR 2. Rankings fell and traffic declined. When I noticed this, I continued to add good content. Traffic is picking up again. I believe that the key is to ignore the page rank for now, and build good content.

My career blog went from zero to 5, my carnivals blog created in august is a pr4,my other blogs are all 3’s….and my blog on USA TODAY is a PageRank 6…..all are no older than 3 months. And all link to eachother..which is why my sites rank so high…I even put a pkg together for others who want high rankings. You can learn just how easy it is to be a pagerank 5at http://blogcarnivals.blogspot.com

@Brown Baron – In my case, I was running TLA but removed a few weeks before the updates. I guess it was too late. I think the next penalty I received was the same one you got which is for sponsored reviews. :)

I don’t sell TLA and yet Google dropped me from a 3 to 2 lol. What’s funny is that iwebtool shows me at 3 with a predicted 6 haha. All I can think of is that Google penalized me for my sponsored reviews without nofollowed links.

Sorry to hear about your PR drop. I’ve had the same problem. Can you tell me how to “file for a reinclusion at Google Webmaster Tools”? I’ve been looking around in the Google Webmasters Tools site and found out a lot of neat stuff for my site, but don’t see anything about PageRank. :cry:

@Teejay – I’ve heard about Scratchback but I haven’t had the time to check it out or find out more about it. It will be a good alternative for bloggers who decided to get rid of TLA and hopefully it won’t the cause for additional PR penalties.

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